Sentence examples for constituent order from inspiring English sources
Clauses have the basic constituent order subject object verb.
Hall, M. L., Mayberry, R. I. & Ferreira, V. S. Cognitive constraints on constituent order: evidence from elicited pantomime.
However, practically any constituent of the sentence can be made prominent by one means or another, including changes of constituent order.
Grammatically, it is related to Tok Pisin, although Hiri Motu's constituent order in the sentence allows object verb subject sequences instead of a consistent subject verb object order, as in raisi bona kuku ia hénia inai tauna se 'this person gives him rice and tobacco' (literally, 'rice and tobacco he [ia] gives-it [hén-ia] this man [inai tauna] {subject marker} [se]').
Her work focuses on how language contact affects linguistic variation, in particular constituent order in the world's languages.
The talk has two main parts: first, I propose and motivate a cross-linguistically valid operational measure of flexibility in constituent order using formal acceptability judgment experiments.
Arnold, Jennifer, Thomas Wasow, Ash Asudeh, and Peter Alrenga "Avoiding Attachment Ambiguities: the role of Constituent Ordering".
Each test sentence was converted into an abstract sentence representation by performing two tasks: (1) every content word was replaced by its lemma and (2) the constituent ordering of NP and VP modifiers was randomised.
In McCutcheon, he wrote, "Representatives are not to follow constituent orders, but can be expected to be cognizant of and responsive to those concerns.
From McCutcheon to Williams-Yulee, the chief moved from saying that politicians are naturally responsive to "constituent orders" -- that is, the views of the voters who elected them -- to suggesting they should be responsive to "the preferences of their supporters" -- a broader term that sweeps in the donors who back them.
Although tight junctions among taste bud cells (TBCs, animal chemical sensors) prevent the diffusion of food constituents to protect TBCs, these tight junctions are suggested to permeate some food constituents in order to elicit taste responses to them.
